Education forum scheduled at Adrian College

A community forum at Adrian College will examine “issues facing stakeholders in education,” according to a news release from the college.

The forum, sponsored by the Adrian College institutes for education and ethics, will take place at 7 p.m. Nov. 12 in Dawson Auditorium on the Adrian College campus.

The forum is free and open to the public.

The forum will address the following questions, according to the news release:— “Who is responsible for public eduction?” — “What are the purposes of public education?” — “How do we achieve these purposes?”

“These questions are basic to the current debate over American public education,” the news release quotes Institute for Ethics Director Fritz Detwiler as saying. “We will be considering not only the goals of public education, but also who has the moral responsibility for achieving those goals.”

A panel that includes educators, parents, business owners and government officials will discuss the questions.

The panel will include Andrea Milner, director of the Institute for Education, Adrian College; Sam Skeels, principal of Lincoln Elementary School, Adrian; John Austin, president of the board of education, state of Michigan; and Gary Koppelman, fifth-grade teacher, Blissfield Elementary School, and 2013 SHELL Science Award winner.

Also on the panel will be Don Taylor, local business advocate, Adrian; Heather Perez, resource development manager, Communities in Schools; and Susan Deemer, parent in the Adrian Public Schools district for two decades.

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